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Shreveport’s 10-month year-to-date sales tax receipts are $104,897,747.42. A year ago, the same 10-month total was $104,418,155.64. The latest sum is $479, 591.78 above last year.

Nothing much changed here in Shreveport this week. We had an election, but nothing changed. We still have serious problems affecting Shreveport and our solvency. Shreveport has proven repeatedly that elections do not change things here. The change that we need will have to come from within us.

Dr. Woodrow Wilson, Caddo Commission Administrator, presented the commission with the proposed 2021 budget during a special meeting on October 29.

SHREVEPORT, La. – Six days after securing Army West Point as the home team, the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, ESPN and Bowl Season announced on Friday that the 2020 Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl will kick off on Saturday, December 26, 2020 at 7 p.m. EST/6 p.m. CST.

In a year when few things have gone as planned, the AT&T Foundation made sure that the second annual (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) HBCU Educational Conference hosted by LSU Health Shreveport would be possible. They did so through awarding a $25,000 AT&T Aspire grant to the LSU Health Shreveport Foundation. The AT&T Aspire Grant is directed to student investment and will be used to support students attending historically black colleges and universities in Louisiana who are exploring career paths in medicine, research and allied health professions through attendance of the 2020 LSU Health Shreveport Virtual HBCU Educational Conference.

Louisiana shoppers will see state sales taxes suspended for two days in November, under a bill passed by lawmakers in their latest special session and signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards.

SHREVEPORT, La. - Rep. Mike Johnson announced Monday Shreveport will receive a $150,000 grant to help reduce violent crime.

Emily Settle Merckle and Edward Mouton will be in a runoff election on Dec. 5 for the Shreveport city court judgeship.